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Prasad, Ritika.

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Tracking modernity: The experience of railways in colonial India, 1853-1947.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tracking modernity: The experience of railways in colonial India, 1853-1947./
Author:	Prasad, Ritika.
Description:	599 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-02, Section: A, page: 0673.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-02A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3394916
ISBN:	9781109621280

Tracking modernity: The experience of railways in colonial India, 1853-1947.
Prasad, Ritika.

Tracking modernity: The experience of railways in colonial India, 1853-1947. - 599 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-02, Section: A, page: 0673.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2009.

My dissertation studies the impact of railway technology on the society, culture, and politics of colonial India, from when railways were introduced in the mid-nineteenth century as part of the British imperial project, to the era of national independence and partition in 1947. I focus on the perspectives and experiences of railway passengers to delineate how the colonial public used, domesticated, and deployed this radically new technology, even as their everyday life was transformed by it. While the impact of railways on colonial India has been examined, so far, in terms of changes in the organization of capital, labor, markets, and industry, my dissertation addresses the relationship between railway travel and transformations in practices and sensibilities, in social and political relationships, and in definitions of community. This is crucial to analyzing the impact of railways, for these had been burdened with the task of restructuring society and culture in colonial spaces. It was anticipated that railways would transport India, literally and metaphorically, into a historical modern conforming to imperial formulations of progress. By historicizing their impact in colonial India, it is my intention to critically assess railways as the idiomatic vehicle of modernity and to examine the symmetry -- and dissonance -- between modernity understood as an archetypal form and as an historical experience.

ISBN: 9781109621280Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Tracking modernity: The experience of railways in colonial India, 1853-1947.
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